The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1955

Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1955 was awarded to Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell "for his discoveries concerning the nature and mode of action of oxidation enzymes"

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